The threat of death instantly engulfed the battlefield. Raven tensed, and without a moment's hesitation, she replicated Pietro's Super Speed X-Gene. Bursting forward at ten times the speed of sound, she became a blur and shot away.
She raced to Alex Summers's side, seized his wrist in a death grip, then accelerated again toward Erik, dragging both men with her as she sprinted away at full speed.
At the same time, Darwin reacted just as quickly.
Knowing full well that no one could withstand this explosion, he immediately activated his power and appeared beside Charles and the others. He took them straight out of the battlefield, teleporting to a safe island in the distance and setting them down gently.
The moment their feet touched the ground, Wanda came running over with reddened eyes, frantically shouting through her tears:
"My brother! My brother's still on the island!"
Darwin shuddered, abruptly coming to his senses.
With no time to think, he willed himself to teleport again, returning to the dangerous battlefield and appearing beside Pietro, who lay gravely injured on the ground.
He bent down and scooped Pietro tightly into his arms, but at that very moment, the torrent of mixed energy sweeping across heaven and earth came crashing down!
In that split second, Darwin curled himself up tightly, shielding Pietro securely against the center of his chest and using his back and body to withstand the unstoppable, destructive impact.
The raging energy, laden with lethal nuclear radiation, scoured and crushed his body.
The intense heat instantly burned his clothes to ash that scattered through the air. Under the combined assault of radiation and energy, his flesh rapidly reddened, burned, and split open. Strange sounds kept coming from his overburdened body as its functions rapidly deteriorated.
Agonizing pain swept through his entire